Aspects of Australia's system of HFE: Submission by Jerome Fahrer and Vince Fitzgerald

Vince FitzGerald, Jerome Fahrer

NSW Treasury

Published 2017-11-30

This submission to the Productivity Commission by Jerome Fahrer and Vince FitzGerald concerns aspects of Australia’s system of Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation (HFE), including how much equalisation should occur, how Indigenous expenditure and the Northern Territory should be treated in the HFE process and the interaction of HFE with direct Commonwealth payments to States and Territories.